Section 261.001 - Definitions(a) In this chapter: (1) "Utility" means a person engaged in this state in:(A) generating, transmitting, or distributing and selling electric power;(B) transporting, distributing, and selling, through a local distribution system, natural or other gas for domestic, commercial, industrial, or other use;(C) owning or operating a pipeline to transmit or sell natural or other gas, natural gas liquids, crude oil, or petroleum products to another pipeline company or to a refinery, local distribution system, municipality, or industrial consumer;(D) providing telephone or telegraph service to others;(E) producing, transmitting, or distributing and selling steam or water;(F) operating a railroad; or(G) providing sewer service to others.(2) "Utility security instrument" means:(A) a mortgage, deed of trust, security agreement, or other instrument executed to secure payment of a bond, note, or other obligation of a utility; or(B) an instrument that supplements or amends an instrument described by Paragraph (A), including a signed copy of the instrument.(b) The definitions in Chapters 1 and 9 apply to this chapter.Tex. Bus. and Comm. Code § 261.001
Added by Acts 2007, 80th Leg., R.S., Ch. 885, Sec. 2.01, eff. 4/1/2009.